A federal judge questioned Google's privacy bona fides in a ruling Tuesday. The U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas denied Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit that a Texas-led coalition of states brought alleging violations of antitrust laws and protections against unfair and deceptive trade practices.
Palo Alto Networks supports passage of a comprehensive federal privacy law, a senior official at the cybersecurity company said Tuesday.
Days ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline for data broker registration, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced that Connecticut-based data broker Key Marketing Advantage (KMA) agreed to pay $55,800 for failing to register and pay a fee in 2024.
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UnitedHealthcare increased its estimate of individuals affected by the February 2024 Change Healthcare data breach to 190 million individuals, nearly double its earlier estimate of 100 million.
New Jersey's Essex County Superior Court ordered a dismissal of the lawsuit against social media platform TikTok over kids safety and mental health concerns on Saturday. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed the complaint in October, alleging TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the state’s consumer protection law.
"A strong data privacy bill must include a private right of action to allow … individuals to bring a lawsuit when they suffer actual damages,” Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) said Monday. At a livestreamed press conference, Clark supported state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) in reintroducing a privacy bill that Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed last year. Priestley said the 2025 bill will also include data minimization rules, despite business concerns stemming from Maryland’s law, which includes such requirements.
TikTok submitted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that New York state brought against it in a memorandum on Wednesday in a case alleging violation of consumer protection and product-liability laws. TikTok based its motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s claims are legally defective, and because New York failed “to state a cause of action,” according to the court document.
Class action lawsuits surrounding cybersecurity breaches have risen significantly in recent years and 2024 was no exception, lawyers said during a Practising Law Institute event Thursday. Speakers discussed trends from 2024 concerning litigation about data privacy, cybersecurity breaches and the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act.
Video telematics and fleet management products provider Lytx denied violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in an email Wednesday following settlement of a class-action lawsuit over the company's driver-monitoring technologies (see 2501210054).